Sunday, 8 September 2013

SOMETHING NEW

Look I'll be honest I'm a BIG fan of this creative pairing and to have this collection shipping Wednesday is just so EXCITING!

I named the first comic store I managed after the ground breaking 'Strange Days' a 3 issue mini series published by Eclipse in 1984.

So its safe to say that my evangelical zeal for this welcome release is boiling over!

So to sweeten the deal we are discounting the book from its £19 retail price down to £15 over its inaugural week.

One of comics’ most fruitful collaborations gets its due in this deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk There is still nothing else like Freakwave, Paradax!, Skin, and Rogan Gosh, and this volume is the ideal starting place for new readers! Collecting twenty years’ worth of the pair’s finest work from Vanguard Illustrated, Strange Days, 2000 AD, and Vertigo.

Brand-new restoration and commentary!

Below is the first instalment of Paradax! a mash up of Carmine Infantino's Flash and David Bowie.

created a new grammar of storytelling and a cinematic style of motion. Once-wooden characters cascaded from one frame to another — or even from page to page — threatening to fall right out of the book into the reader’s lap. The force of punches thrown was visibly and explosively evident. Even at rest, a Kirby character pulsed with tension and energy in a way that makes movie versions of the same characters seem static by comparison.

Ditko described his and Stan Lee's contributions in a mail interview with Gary Martin published in Comic Fan #2 (Summer 1965): "Stan Lee thought the name up. I did costume, web gimmick on wrist & spider signal".

Alan was born in Northampton, England to brewery worker Ernest Moore and printer Sylvia Doreen. He lived in a poor working class area, and, after passing the Eleven plus exam, attended Northampton Grammar School, but in 1970, at the age of 17, he was expelled for dealing LSD, later describing himself as "one of the world's most inept LSD dealers".With his first wife, Phyllis, he had two daughters, Amber and Leah. The couple also had a mutual lover, Deborah. In time, Phyllis, Deborah and the two children left Moore. On 12 May 2007, he married Melinda Gebbie, with whom he has worked on several comics.He currently lives in Northampton. He is a vegetarian, an anarchist,a practicing magician and occultist, and he worships a Roman snake-deity named Glycon, which he acknowledges to be a "complete hoax"